2017-2018 Performance Season

Another Openin'

Intro, Advanced, and Drama Club students kick-off the performance season by presenting monologues & scenes. Theatre 2 will focus the evening's work with a featured one-act, Sleeping Beauty, by Blanche Marvin.

Modeled on Restoration comedies, the play features a shy and absent minded Prince who is browbeaten into marrying the Sleeping Beauty who is 100 years his senior. The children in the audience lend him a hand while good and bad fairies deal with the politics of the day and the gossips of the court vie with each other telling scandal.

September 28, 29 & 307 pm, RC Black Box TheatreTickets: one for $3, two for $5Sleeping Beauty (Marvin) is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH INC.

The Haunted House & Family Faire

Test your guts as you venture deep into the haunted halls of River City High School. Experience the extra thrills and chills with fun kids crafts and sweet treats for the whole family. Entertainment to be provided by the Concert and Ave Choirs!

It's A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play

adapted by Joe Landry​This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.

December 7 & 8 at 7 pmDecember 9 & 10 at 3 pmRC Black Box TheatreTickets: children $4 (12 & under), students (with id) $6, adults $8It's A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play is produced by special arrangementwith Playscripts, Inc. www.playscripts.com

Murder at the Pie Auction

by Michael Druce

After years of trying unsuccessfully, the small town of Mynute, Alaska, finally lands the famous Mother Mabel’s Pie Baking Competition. However, just hours before the competition begins, the pie judge goes missing. When he turns up dead while the audience is bidding for the pies, the characters turn on each other as they try to figure out who committed the murder.

Enjoy a piece of pie with the show and be prepared to bid on specialty pies to take home. A perfectly sweet treat for Valentine's Day!

February 9 & 107 pm at Bryte Cafe TheatreTickets: children $4 (12 & under), students (with id) $6, adults $8Murder at the Pie Auction is produced in arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.

Little Shop of Horrors

Book and Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMANMusic by ALAN MENKENBased on the film by Roger Corman, Screenplay by Charles GriffithOriginally produced by the WPA Theatre (Kyle Renick, Producing Director)Originally produced at the Orpheum Theatre, New York City by the WPATheatre, David Geffen, Cameron Mackintosh and the Shubert OrganizationThe meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names "Audrey II" - after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it, BLOOD. Over time, though, Seymour discovers Audrey II's out of this world origins and intent towards global domination!

April 13, 14, 19, & 20 at 7 pmApril 15 & 21 at 3 pmBryte Cafe TheatreTickets: children (12 & under) $6, students (with id) $10, adults $15Little Shop of Horrors is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com

Storybook Theatre

Advanced Theatre students take the show on the road, bringing storybook classics to life for young audiences.